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Definition: Ingrate |
IngrateNoun1. A person who shows no gratitude. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ingrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Satire | INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity. "All men are ingrates," sneered the cynic. "Nay," The good philanthropist replied; "I did great service to a man one day Who never since has cursed me to repay, Nor vilified." "Ho!" cried the cynic, "lead me to him straight -- With veneration I am overcome, And fain would have his blessing." "Sad your fate -- He cannot bless you, for AI grieve to state This man is dumb." Ariel Selp. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: IngrateSynonyms: thankless wretch (n), ungrateful person (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ingratitude | Adjective: ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate,Adjective: ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful; thankless, ingrate, wanting in gratitude, insensible of benefits. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ingrate |
| English words defined with "ingrate": Ungrate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ingrate": BEFRIEND. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ingrate": Ungrate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ingrate" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (thanklessly). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Ingrate (1912) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Oh! I am an unnatural ingrate. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BEFRIEND, v.t. To make an ingrate. |
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| "Ingrate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Ingrate" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ingrate | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ingrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mosmirënjohës. (various references) | |
Arabic | العاق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неблагодарник, неблагодарен (plodding, thankless, ungrateful, unthankful). (various references) | |
Czech | nevdìèník. (various references) | |
Farsi | فشاروارداوردن بر, نمک ناشناسی کردن , تعدی کردن (Oppress, Trepass), ظلم کردن بر. (various references) | |
French | ingrat. (various references) | |
German | undankbarer mensch, undankbare (unappreciatively, unthankfully), undankbar (thankless, ungrateful, unthankfully). (various references) | |
Greek | αγνωμών (thankless, ungrateful), αχάριστοσ (thankless, ungrateful, unthankful). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כפוי טובה (ungrateful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hálátlan (barren, irksome, thankless, ungrateful). (various references) | |
Italian | ingrato (thankless, ungrateful, unthankful). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingrateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ingrato (thankless, ungrateful, unthankful). (various references) | |
Russian | неблагодарный (thankless, ungrateful, unthankful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nezahvalnik. (various references) | |
Spanish | ingrato (ungrateful, thankless), desagradecido (ungrateful, unthankful). (various references) | |
Swedish | otacksam person, otacksam (ungrateful, thankless). (various references) | |
Thai | อกตัญญู, คนอกตัญญู. (various references) | |
Turkish | nankör kimse, nankör (thankless, ungrateful, unthankful). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | невдячний (churlish, thankless, ungrateful, unthankful). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người vô ơn bạc nghĩa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ingrate": ingrates. (additional references) | |
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"Ingrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Angarita, Igartua, igrate, inerate, ingat, ingrait, ingrated, inrate, Intrare, intreate, inurate, Negrete. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: granite, gratine, tangier, tearing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: aigret, argent, earing, eating, engirt, gainer, gaiter, garnet, gratin, ingate, ratine, rating, reagin, regain, regina, retain, retina, taring, triage. | |
-2 letters: agent, anger, antre, entia, garni, giant, grain, grant, grate, great, inert, inter, irate, niter, nitre, range, regna, reign, renig, retag, retia, riant, targe, tenia, terai, terga, tiger, tinea, tinge, tragi, train, trine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aerating, alerting, altering, angriest, argentic, astringe, averting, berating, catering, creating, derating, earthing, emigrant, ganister, gantries, gnattier, gradient, granites, gratinee, grievant, hearting, ingather, ingrates, integral, interage, rangiest, reacting, rebating, redating, relating, remating, retaking, retaping, retaxing, tabering, tanglier, tapering, treading, treating, triangle, twangier, vintager, watering. | |
+2 letters: accreting, adverting, agentries, antiglare, aragonite, argentine, argentite, arresting, asserting, astringed, astringes, bantering, bartering, battering, betraying, breasting, breathing, cantering, carpeting, centigram, cratering, cremating, denigrate, departing, deratting, earthling, emigrants, estraying, faltering, fathering, featuring, ganisters, gannister, garniture, gartering, gathering, gauntries, germinate, gnarliest, gradients, grainiest, granulite, gratineed, gratinees, grievants, haltering, ingathers, ingrafted, integrals, integrand, integrate, intergang, iterating, lathering, marginate, marketing, mastering, mattering, morganite, nattering, naughtier, nightmare, nightwear, operating, orangiest, originate, paltering, parenting, pargeting, pattering, preacting, predating, pretaping, rabbeting, racketing, rattening, rebaiting, recanting, recasting, recrating, redacting, reflating, regrating, reheating, repasting, repeating, replating, reseating, reslating, restaging, restating, retacking, retagging, retailing, retaining, retarding, retasting, reteaming, retearing, retracing, seriating, serrating, signature, stingaree, streaking, streaming, tampering, tangerine, targeting, tattering, terracing, threading, threaping, threating, tragedian, trameling, trapesing, traveling, treadling, triangles, uptearing, vintagers, waterings, wreathing, yattering. | |
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